A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...

Earth’s trusty magnetic field has been keeping the planet safe for at least 3.7 billion years. There’s a chance it might have ...

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to ...

They open new perspectives on the geological and atmospheric history of Mars ... promoting asymmetric convection currents. Unlike Earth, where the presence of a solid inner core stabilizes the ...

A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...

The study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has shed light on the extreme solar particle event that Earth experienced in 12,350 B.C.E. Such extreme events have only occurred a handful ...